Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fearing that the killers might be freed, Sadat alerted the Egyptian army's crack Saiqa (Lightning) commando team and ordered it sent to Larnaca. Cairo merely informed Kyprianou that "we have people on the way to help rescue the hostages." Clearly, Sadat was preparing for an Entebbe-like raid. When the Egyptian transport arrived, Cypriot officials were stunned to discover that the "helpers" were Commando General Nabil Shukry and his assault team. Most were wearing combat suits. For some unexplained reason, several commandos were disguised for undercover work, some in sport clothes, a few in bell-bottom denims...
Hailing its commandos home last week, Egypt treated the Larnaca raid as a famous victory, and in a sense it was. Sadat was praised for forcefulness not only by President Carter but even by the Israelis. But the Cyprus events, beginning with Sebai's assassination, were a grievous blow to Arab unity, especially for rejectionists like Arafat, who oppose Sadat's negotiations but would really like to close the gap between their position and his. Up to now Sadat has based his conversations with Israel not only on the recovery of Sinai but on Palestinian rights as well...
...about the advanced Mirage-2000 fighter plane and NATO defenses. Israeli officials were shocked in 1972 when they deciphered the code used for radio transmissions between Cyprus, the KGB's Middle East headquarters, and Moscow, and discovered the Soviets had obtained full details of a planned Israeli retaliation raid against Syria. Damascus had the plan four hours before the scheduled Israeli raid...
That grim message was delivered to Bonn news agencies after three convicted members of the infamous Baader-Meinhof gang committed suicide last month in their prison cells following West Germany's antiterrorist raid at Mogadishu. As the deadline arrived last week, West Germany's national airline responded with a policy of saturation security for its 411 daily scheduled flights worldwide. Fortunately, as the first tense days came and went, there were no incidents more serious than flight delays of up to 20 minutes caused by Lufthansa's preboarding passenger inspections. Later, a second letter, delivered to news...
Infuriated by the casualties, Palestinians again unleashed scattered new rounds of Katyushas, most of which hit around Kibbutz Yir'on near the border. That led to a second Israeli bombing raid. The fedayeen were ordered to cease firing by Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Earlier in the week, Arafat had been present at an extraordinary nationally televised address to the Egyptian parliament by President Anwar Sadat, who did not even mention the air raids that had just taken place in Lebanon. Declared Sadat: "There is no time to lose. I am ready to go to their...